Stratocaster or S-type guitar New pickups Patience To begin, remove the strings from your Strat. Once the strings are off, remove each scratchplate screw and carefully flip the pickguard over onto a soft surface, such as a cloth or tea towel, to prevent scratches. ...
Throughout the build, it’s important to keep the centerline reference on the top, back, and body until the neck pocket and pickup cavities are routed, and the bridge and tailpiece mounting holes are drilled. These need to be aligned with the neck so that the...
In this piece, we'll break down everything you need to know to ensure you've got the right strings on your Stratocaster, Telecaster or any other electric guitar. String Gauges "String gauge" refers to the size of the string, as in how thick, measured in thousandths of an inch. The ga...
A single-coil-equipped guitar such as a Fender Stratocaster will deliver the goodies here. Your basic tone will be clean and transparent, and your soft-to-loud dynamics—when you switch from playing with more or less attack on the strings—should be translated clearly. You adore surf music....
Why Should I Change My Guitar Strings? Over time, your guitar strings will begin to corrode and lose their integrity. This will cause the tone of your guitar to sound a little flat, rather than resonant and pristine. If you leave your strings on long enough, they could actually start to...
The Fender Roller nut is a unique innovation. The nut has balls on the inside of each string notch. The balls guide the strings through the notch and allow the strings to roll on the balls. This design helps prevent the string from getting stuck in the string notch when you are tuning ...
Don’t forget to look back at previous instalments in this series for advice on how to setup a Stratocaster, how to correctly restring an acoustic or even when to change your guitars strings.Are you on the hunt for more advice on how to get the best out of your beloved guitar? Click ...
We use it to describe a “natural” tone, meaning a relatively flat frequency response. Speakers can have different frequency response depending on materials and construction design, like cone shape, magnet weight and coil size. Also, the aging process of these materials will change a speaker’s...
Fender Stratocaster MM: I like Stratocaster guitars. I appreciate the way the fingerboard is compared to other guitars. It makes it a bit easier to play. This was the first left-handed guitar I ever got. I was talking to Christopher Kirkley and asked him whether left-handed guitars existed...
Think "guitar god," and a particular image of Jimi Hendrix springs to mind: Hendrix kneeling, shamanlike, before his Fender Stratocaster, his hands seeming to coax flames from the instrument. Captured by photographer Jim Marshall at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, this image is burned into the...